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Noun: Parkinson's
  1. A degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination
    "His hands showed the characteristic tremor of Parkinson's disease";
    - paralysis agitans, Parkinsonism, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's syndrome, shaking palsy
Noun: Parkinson  paa(r)-kin-sun
  1. English surgeon (1755-1824)
    - James Parkinson
     
  2. British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993)
    - C. Northcote Parkinson, Cyril Northcote Parkinson

Type of: brain disease, brain disorder, degenerative disorder, encephalopathy, historian, historiographer, operating surgeon, sawbones [informal], surgeon

Encyclopedia: Parkinson's

Parkinson, Leonard